Sunday, June 24, 2018

Gen-Con 2018 Board Game publisher's List

Gen-Con is coming!I don't know about you, but I can get overwhelmed as I prepare for Gen-Con. I'm starting to plan out my schedule for the show and I'm trying to determine which publishers to try to arrange meetings, which would be a good fit for my games (you should never pitch to a publisher who isn't a good fit!) and this year, I want to find out more from the publishers about what they are looking forHowever, I didn't even know who was going to be at the show! How was I to learn this? My first thought was to check out the Gen-Con website's interactive map but it's actually kind of hard to navigate for this kind of information.Undeterred, I dug deeper into the web (OK, I Google'd) and I was able to find a great site at Living Dice.com that had links to all of the exhibitors at the show, however this list, while comprehensive, included everyone at the show, including a vendor who sold adorable Owl Bear stuffies.I took a few days (really, it took three days) to go through the list. I only listed publishers who produced board games, not those who exclusively made miniature games (like WarMachine or Warhammer 40K) and not companies that only made role-playing games (not that they aren't great companies - I am only focused on board and card game publishers). And I didn't list game-manufacturers who also sold games like The Game Crafter. In addition to the company, I listed their booth location number at the show. I would have liked to have gone into more detail about the games they make and their published titles, but at least it's a start.Also, any publisher marked with a * only had one game list on their site, which implied to me that they are less likely to publish someone else's game... yet.

Academy Games : 2748

Adam's Apple Games : 2663

AEGIS Combining Robots : 3060*

Albino Dragon: 122

Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG): 701

Alter Reality Games: 2501

Amigo Games: 2763

Ankama Board Games : 2753

Anvil Eight Games: 320

APE Games: 1739

Arcane Wonders: 1249

Archon Games: 460

Archon Studio: 2544

Ares Games: 335

Artana : 1159

Asmadi Games: 2229

Asmodee Digial: 2509

Atlas Games: 1407

B&B Games Studio: 259

Bananagrams Inc.: 2015*

BANDAI: 3023

Bezier Games: 431

Big G Creative: 1656

Big Potato Games: 2105

Blacklist Games: 2907

Blood & Cardstock Games: 120

Blue Orange Games: 1813

Brain Games: 2205

Braine Games: 2050

Breaking Games: 2329

Brotherwise Games, LLC: 1639

Buy the Rights: 554*

Calliope Games: 1901

Capstone Games: 1559

Cardboard Dynamo: 2768

Catan Studio: 823*

Cephalofair Games: 250

Chaosium: 829

Cheapass Games: 1823

Chip Theory Games LLC: 2927

CMON 415

Coffee Cake Gaming: 2958

Columbia Games: 273

Corvus Belli Infinity: 241*

Crafty Games: 1929

Cranio Creations: 2005

Cryptozoic Entertainment: 609

D-Verse NEXUS: 2959

Daily Magic Games: 264

Days of Wonder: 1619

Decision Games/Strategy & Tactics Press: 3018

Deep Water Games: 272

Devious Weasel Games: 1130

Devir Games: 2639

Diemension Games Inc: 3065

Dodeca System Games: 363

Dude Games: 2807

Dust USA: 3035*

DV Giochi: 2707

Eagle-Gryphon Games: 163

Eggertspiele: 2935

Et Games: 565

Everything Epic: 2923

Exodus The Trading Card Game: 2944*

Exploding Kittens, LLC: 2643

Facade Games: 2856

Fallen Dominion Studios, LLC : 3057

Fantasy Flight Games : 809

FASA Games : 1929

Fireside Games : 2455

Floodgate Games : 249

Flying Frog Productions : 941

Flying Meeple: 2315

Force of Will: 2469

Formal Ferret Games: 2770

FoxMind: 1908

Free League Publishing: 1455

Gale Force Nine: 629

Game Salute: 2315

Gamelyn Games: 2945

Games Workship: 2619

Gamewick Games: 2918

Gamewright: 2100

GCT Studios: 2821

Genius Games: 171

Gigamic: 1913

Gold Baby Games: 165

Golden Bell Studios: 2860

Golden Egg Games: 319

Goliath Games: 2507

Gorilla Games: 2606

Grail Games: 30

Grand Gamers Guild: 2007

Great Northern Games: 2511

Green Couch Games: 2108

Greenbrier Games: 637

Grey Fox Games: 2401

Griggling Games: 123

Gut Bustin Games: 1236

HABA USA: 1907

Hammerdog Games: 634

Happy Games Factory: 175

Hawk War Games: 2141

Haywire Group: 2006

HELVETIQ: 2956

HEWN: 2723

Hit 'Em With A Shoe: 3058

Holy Grail Games: 2859

Hot Metal Games: 1552

IDW Games: 158

IELLO: 129

Indie Boards and Cards: 2447

Inside the Box Board Games: 2857

Inside Up Games: 1456

Jasco Games: 2119

Jason Anarchy Games: 2448

Jellybean Games: 2953

Junk Spirit Games: 2656

Kess Co.: 2865

Keymaster Games: 2445

Kingdom Death: 3003*

Knowledge the Game: 2861*

Kolossal Games: 3004

Kosmos: 2648

Lay Waste Games: 2831

Leder Games LLC: 3043

Level 99 Games: 2149

Lightseekers: 555*

Lone Shark Games Inc.: 2735

Looney Labs: 1651

Lucky Duck Games: 3054

Luna Games: 2960

Mantic Entertainment Ltd: 835

Master of Wills: 2965*

Mattel Games: 349

Mayday Games: 2101

Meromorph Games: 2646

Mindclash Games: 1739

Monolith Board Games: 2830

Mr. B Games: 2342

Myndzei Games LLC: 112

Mythic Games: 3033

Mythical Eras of War Games, LLC: 1839

Nauvoo Games: 2009

Ninja Division: 2627

North Star Games: 2311

Odam Publishing: 1238

Odd Bird Games: 271

Oink Games: 2561

On The Lamb Games: 464*

Paizo Inc. 403*

Pandasaurus Games: 3047

Party People Games: 175

Passport Game Studio: 2535

Paw-Warrior Games: 2504

Peaceable Kingdom: 1805

Pegasus Spiele: 2013

Pelgrane Press: 1317

Perplext LLC: 466*

Petersen Games: 1261

Plaid Hat Games: 1537

Plan B Games: 2935

PlayMonster: 453

Pointy Hat Games LLC: 3061*

Portal Dragon: 3062*

Portal Games: 1850

Pretzel Games: 1850

Prolific Games: 269*

Queen Games GmbH: 2527

Quined Games: 1556

Rather Dashing Games: 1437

Ravensburger: 2113

Red Raven Games: 2659

Renegade Game Studios: 2209

Resonym LLC: 1803

Restoration Games: 151

ROXLEY: 531*

Rule & Make: 2535

Set Enterprises Inc.: 2208

SFR: 2025

Skybound Games: 2841

Slugfest Games: 1849

Smirk and Dagger Games: 1743

Soaring Rhino: 2961

Space Cowboys: 1719

Space Unicorn: Battle Over Cupcake Mountain: 2755

Sparks Games: 553*

Sparkworks: 2315

Spellforge Games: 1259*

SpinMaster: 2727

Spy Alley: 2110*

Starling Games: 2315

Steamforged Games: 2827

Steve Jackson Games: 2827

Stonemaier Games: 3019

Stronghold Games: 2019

Studio Woe: 3015

Summon Entertainment: 1256*

Surfin' Meeple LLC: 2201

Table Forged, LLC: 2540

Tasty Minstrel Games: 1337

The City of Games: 2765*

The Witchborn: 1938*

ThunderGryph Games; 2862

Thunderworks Games: 2954

Tudor Games: 2955

Tuesday Knight Games: 2051

Twilight Creations Inc.: 323

Twin City Games: 1906*

TwoGether Studios: 2667

University Games: 2208

Upper Deck: 1205

USAopoly: 137

Van Ryder Games: 2731

Vesuvius Media: 2558

Victory Point Games: 2315

Warcradle Studios: 3027*

We Have Issue! Publishing: 1940*

Weta Workshop: 601*

White Wizard Games: 2741

Wildfire LLC: 1355

Winning Moves Games: 237

Wizkids: 217

Wonderment Games: 2855*

Wyrd Games: 1129

XYZ Game Labs: 2962

Z-Man Games: 1429

Zafty Games: 157

Whew! That's a lot of publishers! I'm sure at least ONE of them would be willing to talk to you about your games.Fingers crossed and see you at Gen-Con!

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